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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Fenton, the General Manager and Motion Picture Group President of DMG, has opted not to re-up with the Beverly Hills-based global media company after his latest contract expired last month.
Fenton will instead plan to transition to a consultant role for the company and focus on his near-term…

One of China’s leading film companies DMG, which has co-financed the likes of Iron Man 3, has inked a deal with Hasbro to launch the world’s first live-action Transformers attraction in China. The attraction, with a capacity of 4,500 and set to feature real-life robots as well as spectacular special effects, will…

2ND UPDATE, MONDAY, 9:40 AM PT: International weekend champ Avengers: Age Of Ultron has come in a blip (0.5%) lower in the actuals today compared with Sunday’s projection. Disney reports that the five-day tally overseas in 44 markets was $200.2M versus yesterday's $201.2M estimate. The shift was not in one market in…

UPDATED, Friday, 9:18 AM PT: Grosses are rolling in after Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron opened yesterday in an additional 15 markets to bring its estimated two-day tally to $44.8M. It continues to sit at No. 1 in all markets — 26 in total — and continues to bust records. Three more markets will open today…

Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season is winding down, and the near-final results (courtesy of Rentrak) aren’t pretty: After five years of box office records, total domestic box office for the 2014 season is down nearly 18 percent from last summer, or a whopping $701 million, to $3.22 billion. Last weekend…

Frozen, Disney’s animated family film just keeps breaking box office records. After this weekend with the remaining international territories all in, it has just iced the studio’s own Iron Man 3 to become the fifth highest-grossing film of all time globally. Frozen‘s gross now is a whopping $1.219B (yes, as in…

It’s tipoff time for the championship matchup to determine Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster of 2013. Stay tuned for our version of the postgame show, where we peel the curtain back on the data we commissioned from insiders to determine just how profitable a movie really is.The Matchup: After surviving a bruising…

We are down to the nitty gritty on Deadline's search for 2013's Most Valuable Blockbuster. This is the first of two showdowns today. Fueled by the numbers furnished by our insiders, we'll find out just how profitable these movies really are.OTHER FINAL FOUR MATCHUP#2 'Frozen' Vs. #3 'Despicable Me 2′The…

The final eight films in Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster movie tournament face off today. This is the first of our quarterfinal matchups and for the first time we reveal our numbers behind the numbers that show just how profitable a movie really is.The Matchup: The top grossing film of 2013, Iron Man 3, opened…

Oscar crowned a Best Picture winner two weeks ago, but which 2013 film deserves to be called the profitability champ? This is hard to ascertain. We can reliably track box office grosses domestic and offshore, but studios routinely spin cost factors like production, P&A budgets, and talent participation. Capturing the…